REDI. 



By E. H. Adams 



With reference to Mr. Winstedfs paper on " Some more Malay 

 Words " (Journal SO, 1919, p. 136) may I suggest that redi "i 



sort of hammock-litter" is probably from the Portuguese rede 

 (pronounced raidy) " a net " ? It is the word always used in Brazil 

 for the sleeping-hammock. 



The Indian Origin of Malay Folk-Tales, 



R. 0. WlNSTEDT. 



In my paper on the " Folk-Tales of Indonesia and Indo- 

 China" (Journal 76, 191?) I gave several parallels between In- 

 dian and Malay folk-tales. The more one studies the subject, the 

 more one realizes the immense debt Malaya owes to India for 

 folk-tales as well as for language, religion, custom, literature and 

 general culture. I have not space here to discuss the two Malay 

 versions of that store-house of folk-lore, the Panclieitantra: the 

 earlier version, mentioned by Werndly in 1736 A.D. and derived 

 ultimately from the Persian, has been the subject of two of 

 Brandes' invaluable papers {Tijdschrift voor Indische Tadl-Land- 

 en Volkenkunde, Bat. Genoot.. Deel XXXVIII p. 191 and Goeje's 

 Feest-Bundel) : of the Malav version translated by MuDshi Ab- 

 dullah from the Tamil I have given an outline elsewhere (Papers 

 on Malay Subjects, "Literature of Malay Folklore ", K. Lumpur. 

 190?.) So I shall advert only to such tales from the Panchatantra 

 as appear outside those two Malay recensions of the Hi. G alii a wa 

 Damina, to use its Arabic name. 



'PA BELALAXG. 



An outline of this Malay folk-tale is given in my " Literature 

 of Malay Folk-Lore " (pp. 62-63) together with a full translation 

 of two of the tales (pp. 25-2?). An outline together with the 

 whole folk-tale in Malay is printed in CJierlta Jenaka (Winstedt 

 and Sturrock, 2nd ed., Singapore, pp. 57-84). For every episode 

 but two I shall here trace sources in Indian folk-lore. 



( 1 ) ^Pa Belalang bids his son hide buffaloes and then gets a 

 reward for divining their whereabouts. 



This episode occurs in the Katha Sarit Sagara, 



(Tawnev vol. I, p. 2?2) and in a Sinhalese story (Parker's 

 " Tillage Folk-Tales of Ceylon/ 5 vol. I. Tale 23. pp. 179- 

 181). 



R. A. Soc., No. 82, 1920. 



